Recruiter

“If you've met any kind of recruiters, recruiters are excellent at 90 to a 110% capacity and are terrible outside of that, right? If they only have half a rec load, they kind of like are like useless. Or if they're like, you know, way overwhelmed, also just ove…”

“Seasoned great recruiters have their own networks too. Like you have a couple of recruiters in your life that you trust that you probably would like Seek advice on, you know, and so we try to collect those people too, because they can be as influential in tapp…”

“Especially earlier in your career, they're gonna push on this harder. And that indicates that the person asking is really more looking for a commoditized or a price sensitive hire, right?”

“One behavioral psychology hack here. Is we give someone a positive reputation that they want to withhold, whether they deserve it or not. So in this instance, you'd say the recruiter, I want to thank you for being an advocate for me and for respecting that I w…”

“And it just reminded me of like what the frontiers always look like. It's like little signals of you're in the right spot is when there's not even recruiters for the thing. There's no agencies yet for the thing. There's no name for the job.”

“Recruiters Can never sell the company as effectively as the founder.”

“You can right now connect with a 150 people a week on LinkedIn period. I don't care how much you pay LinkedIn. I don't care how much you sign up for, whether it's recruiter or, you know navigator, like you only can connect with a 150 people a week.”

“I think being a recruiter is the highest prestige position in any company. The recruiter is the one who controls the talent inflows and outflows of every company.”

“If you want to move up and you know that it's just a corporate ladder and you just want to move up, best way to get your boss out of the picture, find a bunch of recruiters to recruit them away to a better job.”

“And look, recruiters are pretty good at knowing what, why they're losing candidates and what gets candidates excited. And so if you can just, you know, get, again, get developers excited about it, recruiters are gonna, you know, eventually bring that up the fu…”

“As much as you can work with the hiring manager, even if it's to say, Hey, I just want to run by you. Some of the things I think I need to succeed in the role, you know, before we talk money, you know, with the hiring manager or whatever, with the recruiter, I…”

“So like what I think I'm, what I said, what I don't think has, what I don't think moves the needle is services. I don't think that services, you know, a business development team, a recruiter, et cetera, are actually going to be the difference between success …”

“At Brex, we did not use recruiters, internal or external, to source candidates for the sales organization Ever.”

“And then I would say also, if you're not just hiring directly from college, if you're actually getting people that have some work experience, which I highly recommend, especially for first time hires, if you don't have systems and process in place, I've had a …”

“And at this point, roughly 47% of our recruiters will come in and explicitly use skills when they start looking for candidates.”

“I think just putting them on the spot a little bit and asking them to show their work rather than just sending over a deck of searches that could have been done by other partners or could have just been done by other people on their team.”

“You just hire young, smart people, and then see who grows with you, and that's a much better way than using recruiters”

“If they want to develop some new technology, they put out some competition, and that tends to attract more interesting people than, you know, if they hire a bunch of recruiters to go, you know, find the people in theory they're looking for.”

“Even though engineers are better, At grading other engineers. There are two other facts. One, they don't tend to enjoy doing it. And two, it doesn't tend to be the greatest way to extract value out of a great engineer.”

“You aren't going to get rid of all the recruiters. Even though you don't believe they should exist in the world, they are going to exist in the world. Either you're going to accommodate them, Or they will kill you. Like they tend to actually have way more powe…”

“So that's been my new mindset is if I'm going to hire, I want to find a recruiter who is willing to do that kind of thing, like a flat fee engagement. And I'm encouraging actually tiny C companies to do this now.”

“So we spend money on recruiters and we specifically tell recruiters that we are paying you money to send us people that are outside of our comfort zones and outside of our networks, because we know plenty of, you know, middle-aged white dudes.”

“Typically it takes a recruiter Anywhere from three to six months before they start paying off.”

“I think if you go out and just try to pick a recruiter and hope they're going to deliver value to you, You're gonna, it's, again, like hiring, one out of five chance, it's gonna be great. Two out of five, it's gonna be, you're gonna need to work on it and, you…”

“After you grow to about, let's say, 25, 30, at that point of time, it helps to get a recruiter. That recruiter will at least help sift through the CVs, put out the job postings, make the shortlist and get the shortlisted candidates to the founders to meet. So …”

“Recruiters from a personality standpoint, to be a world-class recruiter, you have to be kind of a world-class salesperson, and generally, world-class salespeople tend to have a fairly self-centric view of the world, like that's what makes them good and, you kn…”

“And I bet if you asked any recruiter, you know what would you rather have, you know, a resume or would you rather be able to listen to five minutes of this candidate telling You about himself. I think most people would choose the latter option.”

“So often recruiters get inundated by huge volumes of applications, and it's impossible just purely from a band bandwidth perspective to have a conversation with everyone. And so often, 85% of people just don't get a response.”

“There's just a huge adverse selection out there. Any candidate that is coming to you through a recruiter is they might be good, but they're not the absolute best candidates. The absolute best candidates are never looking for a job. Those are the people that ge…”

“The average recruiter gets 250 applicants for every job that they post.”

“Over half the jobs we found in our research in this country are filled with recruiters and, you know, yet the average tenure for a millennial is three years.”